After flying free for more nearly five months, Bird riders are getting their wings clipped. The Santa Monica Police Department has officially started cracking down on the city’s 30,000 Bird subscribers, issuing traffic tickets to unsuspecting tourists and locals alike. Last week alone cops stopped 196 people riding motorized... Read more →

Kate Cagle Daily Press Staff Writer The City Council has approved using $500,000 in federal community development block grants to help remodel about a dozen affordable housing apartments just one block south of Santa Monica’s border. In exchange for the funding, Venice Community Housing (VCH) will set aside three of the 14... Read more →

Kate Cagle Daily Press Staff Writer Residents fortunate enough to already have control of one of Santa Monica’s 121 community garden plots throughout the city will experience some changes in the coming year as the program moves into a permitting process. The changes will not help those on the 580 person waiting list get a... Read more →

Kate Cagle Daily Press Staff Writer The City Council has asked staff to look into drafting a ballot measure for the 2018 election that would protect against development exceeding the size guidelines in the Downtown Community Plan (DCP), which was adopted after intense debate earlier this year. The request of Mayor Ted Winterer and... Read more →

Kate Cagle Santa Monica Daily Press The City Council will decide the fate of 164 new apartments in the downtown area tonight when it reviews Development Agreements for two plots owned by NMS Properties and its offshoot, WNMS Communities. The developments are connected – both require the Council to sign off on excess parking spaces... Read more →

Week of November 27, 2017 Street Lighting Modernization Program For the week of November 27, construction will Construction will continue throughout the project area, which is bound by 16th Street to the east, Ocean Park Boulevard to the south, Lincoln Boulevard to the west, and Pico Boulevard to the north. There may be... Read more →

by Gary Rhoades A previous “Consumer Corner” covered a major privacy issue for tenants: entries into their homes by landlords or managers. In "When May A Landlord Enter a Tenant's Unit" (May 10, 2016), we learned that owners must give 24-hour notice and have one of the reasons for entry under state law. Tenants have other privacy... Read more →

Kate Cagle Daily Press Staff Writer Speculators are seizing on Santa Monica’s booming real estate market and cashing in by evicting long term tenants to rake in profits, according to a new report on Ellis Act evictions from rent-controlled apartments commissioned by the City Council. The report said multi-family buildings are often... Read more →

Kate Cagle Daily Press Staff Writer The City Council will review a plan Tuesday to add 200 public charging ports for electric vehicles (EVs) to the city by 2020, with a long-term goal of having 1,000 public ports by 2025. The infrastructure improvements required to create the stations is estimated to cost $2.42 million over three... Read more →

Week of November 6, 2017 Street Lighting Modernization Program For the week of November 6, construction will Construction will continue throughout the project area, which is bound by 16th Street to the east, Ocean Park Boulevard to the south, Lincoln Boulevard to the west, and Pico Boulevard to the north. There may be sidewalk closures... Read more →

Kate Cagle Daily Press Staff Writer The population in Los Angeles County will grow by more than one million people over the next twenty years, according to a preliminary forecast by the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG). SCAG unveiled the new estimate at a meeting of lawmakers and business leaders in Los Angeles to... Read more →

Kate Cagle Daily Press Staff Writer Amid the tourists and street performers who pack the Santa Monica Pier day after day, you may bump into local entrepreneur Sara Hicks walking with one of her employees. Hicks prefers to take one-on-one meetings with her employees to the beach. Tech companies are notoriously concerned about office... Read more →

By CHARLES ANDREWS ADOBE NOT IVY Would describe the look of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, which finally, if reluctantly, granted me a degree, after a nearly decade-long on-again off-again undergrad career. (Hard to put off getting drafted into the Army during Viet Nam, or the opportunity — tiny windfall — to travel... Read more →

Week of October 23, 2017 For the week of October 23, construction will Construction will continue throughout the project area, which is bound by 16th Street to the east, Ocean Park Boulevard to the south, Lincoln Boulevard to the west, and Pico Boulevard to the north. There may be sidewalk closures and temporary no parking posted throughout... Read more →

Including People With Disabilities Drives Innovation The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy recently announced “Inclusion Drives Innovation” as the theme of National Disability Employment Awareness Month in October 2017. According to U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta, “Americans of all... Read more →